Brady has plenty of input into the offensive game plan. The issue is, and it is blatantly obvious, is that he thinks we can play like Iowa or Wisconsin right now. Or worse, he is delusional enough to think that we are the Michigan of 1997 every year.

We have a cultural problem of thinking being a football player at Michigan is good enough to win games, and not do what needs to be done behind the scenes. I think as fans we get tired of hearing the coaches sing the gospel, but then the product is soft and underwhelming. I am also tired of every ten years one senior class decides that we need to work hard and just win a la 1997 and 2006. It would be nice to have that mentality every year. If we have a winning tradition, then do it every year not every ten.

That is a true statement that you always get stronger with age. I strongly disagree with your premiss that a modern day division I S&C program can't add quality size and strength in a year or less.

With the nutrition program that these guys work with, and then getting in the gym one to two extra times a week than the normal three, they should be way, way stronger than they are showing on the field. Regardless, it's time to consider worse case scenarios.

I get the feeling that since we got hit with the over hours situations, that the expectation is the do the minimum or trend close to the rules; rather than what everyone else does, which is more, more and more. Right or wrong, you look and some of the athletes on OSU, MSU, Wisconsin, and every other SEC team, we are no where near bigger, faster or stronger.

You sound like a principal or a leader at a company that demands it's people to support bad policies.

I hate to break it to you but in this day and age no one is OK with idiot leaders anymore, and they challenge the morons. How else are the fans going to relay their displeasure? Emailing DB? I beat you people have been doing it, and last night was a mockery in both coaching, execution and fandom. That's us right now. A Midwestern pile of deluded crap. Better start dealing with it. I mean we saved Pelini's job last night. Could it be any worse?

Accept he makes 5 bills. Nonetheless, Harbaugh wasn't coming because of every reason you see when his teams take the field in Subdays. He wasn't long for the tooth for CFB.

We suck. Bottom line, deal with it. We are never going to amount to shit if we bottom feed. Hey Coach Hoke, we want it all,not just a piece of supposed tradition and 30 year hangover from the "glory days". Whatever...

I got to be honest, I don't think it is just certain staff members that we think of constantly. Hoke himself has epically failed. How many times can a team hear how lucky that they are to be at Michigan before they get the "grass is greener" syndrome? The nebulous "Michigan" can't win games. Coaching your players up wins games. Having Taylor Lewan scream at his teammates like their idiots, that isn't leadership. I get why we are horrible on offense. The leadership on that side of the ball is awful and toxic. Sorry, Taylor is a great player, but he clearly is a terrible leader if that is motivation method.

Shockingly, I doubt changes will be made and we actually will be a better team by getting having better chemistry. Team chemistry is so important and this team has zero! Wow! This team is pressing and impotent.

Did you ever think for one second that the coaches found out he might have qualifying issues or something about him as a person is a sticky point? This whole notion that coaches are randomly dropping recruits for no reason is blatantly moronic and borderline stupidity.

I am really worried Borges is too much like Mile Martz. I mean, I kind of want to say that Gardner needs to see the number problem and either check down to a backside ISO with fullback or as well documented a screen, swing pass or simply move to a new set play.

So, either Gardner can't count, or doesn't have the confidence to, or go ahead from the coaches to make the audible.

So if anyone has ever had any kind of relationship with VATech fans, you now should understand how they feel. We are VATech's twin mid-2000's. An Inexplicable team with a winning record...

If there is a bright side...if I was another BIG team on our schedule, I would be sort of worried because you have no idea how well we will play against you. If we put together three quarters of good football, we meant actually beat you kind of badly. Or, we might look like we have recently, and you feel confident in victory.

Once again, let's over analyze literally nothing on this board. This notion that any new "body" will improve our oline is a farce. He could make it worse. He could make better than ever. It could stay exactly the same. How about we give him four games to prove himself?

I hate to break it to you, but if we lose two conference games, we will not be going to Indy. No fing way!!

And this whole notion of "the coaches need to come down harder on the oline" is bs. Yeah, so let's destroy these young men's confidence because they haven't been consistent in big time major collegiate football. Yep, that should make it better. That will do the trick.

So many people who post on here are rabid control freaks. Yeah, I have vented before and did last night. But I don't pretend to have solutions, like said OP or some of the comments below. You don't know anything about what's going on with the team. Maybe the captains and seniors are terrible leaders. Maybe the youth is rearing it's ugly head and we didn't expect it to be this glaring of a problem. We probably are still a year or so away. Devin clearly needs that 5th year. He is struggling being 110% the "man". Those are realistic, not ranting about "ehT the coaches should do is x,y,z, bs.

I have officially lost my shit with this team. I knew this was gonna be a roller coaster ride this year, but this team doesn't get it. Not yet at least. The special teams and offense are absolutely terrible and inconsistent.

Devin better get his head out if his ass, and Al, I love you, but you suck ass right now. Fing run power and bowl these pansies off the field. No more zone stretch plays!!!!!!!!!!!'nnn

I have officially lost my shit with this team. I knew this was gonna be a roller coaster ride this year, but this team doesn't get it. Not yet at least. The special teams and offense are absolutely terrible and inconsistent.

Devin better get his head out if his ass, and Al, I love you, but you suck ass right now. Fing run power and bowl these pansies off the field. No more zone stretch plays!!!!!!!!!!!'nnn

I don't think you get I meant. F the Irish forevermore! Regardless, I don't give a crap about polls and computer scores.

I care about Michigan doing the best they can year in, and year out; most especially against ND, MSU and Ohio. If we do well, we will have a good season. We win the BIG or make the BIGCCG, we will go to the Citrus bowl or better which should always be a secondary goal.

Logic: Sparty wins today. We win in Nov, and it all works out concerning the strength of schedule argument. Plus, I can't root for ND ever except when they play Ohio -- and that is more a asteroid game any ways.

I know everyone is still reeling from this past weekend, but lets turn down the irrational horns.

So ABC/ESPN is going to show a B-12 game on the east coast and in Midwest, rather than a Michigan brand that would draw a potential 3/4 rating that night?

Yep, makes perfect sense doesn't it?!? Why do you think the AAC wanted the late game people? The whole eastern time zone from the mid-atlantic through BIG country most likely get our game, and the everyone else getting the B12 game (or near abouts), with ESPN2 probably mirroring the coverage. You gotta wait till Thursday for everyone to kick it out it their systems.

Since the DL and DE are under the constant microscope of Hoke and Mattison, they are in an "analysis by paralysis" state. They are so worried about technique and being "perfect" that they play "not mess up" rather than letting it all hang out and get after it.

Probably reading too much into it, but there is a difference in wanting to get your mechanics right to do your job well versus doing it to keep someone off your back so to speak.

Yeah, no shit. Probably coming from a wealthy Cali dude who hasn't experienced how the other half lives.

I can assure you that many a people have massive debt coming out of undergrad WolvLadumbass. If anyone now a days comes out of undergrad without debt is a freaking miracle worker or wealthy. I don't need to insult your intelligence any more than I have to say tuition isn't the only cost if attendance, right?

Frankly, I would just start charging $500 "athletic fee" charge on the annual tuition bill, and you can get into any athletic event with an ID without hassle into the designated student seating areas. No more bs tickets, buying, trading, validating, etc.

I humbly disagree. If you look back on last year and now into this season, Devin feels like he needs to make too many plays for us to score points and win. Problem is, he has balled us out a lot the last 8 games, even though making some bone-headed decisions. He is forcing things, and worrying too much about things he has no control over. We need a run game bad!! Duh, me!

Honestly, whether he thinks that or not, it may be unfortunately right on point. We just don't have elite weapons. Darbohs injury might be a bigger deal than we thought.

You got the sentiment exactly right, but what I think you meant is "it is better to win ugly, than lose pretty". Having said that, this is one if those weeks we will shake our heads about come late season. Just remember we play on the road next week, then we have a bye. A lot of good things are coming.

I think what Magnus means, more aptly, is that the coaches want scholarship players in the "3" deep rather than walk-ons. And though we would have that with Speight, you still need to breed competition. QBs are a big time boom bust trade in CFB.

For every walk-on "making it" story like Kovacs, there are literally hundreds of scholarship players doing equally as well or better every year or through their four to five years on campus.

LOLWUT!?! Haha...ummm dude, "tougher schedule" is a joke. At the beginning of 2012, most CFB analyst and fans would have given you that one. By the end of last season you played no better than a mediocre BIG schedule.

Seriously, you went 12-0. Lucky or not, that's is an accomplishment; but to not have the sense to recognize that despite your 12-0 record, you had no business in the MNCG. It was the system. And playing Bama, well, and getting crushed was an embarrassment. We are still disappointed by our loss to Bama, but it wasn't on the biggest stage or the biggest college football game of the year.

No one is whining that they are in the conference. On a strict academically speaking and AAU model, they are not BIG material. There is a definite argument to made that they are top rate academically, but the most salient point is that they do not fit culturally on the academic side. With how restrictive NDs research practices are do to "oversight" mandates, the BIG and AAU wouldn't want to partner with them.

And let's face it, ND and Texas are similar athletically, meaning they want to dictate terms and get the bigger piece of the pie. BIG is simply more communal and socialistic.

This game is a microcosm of what lies ahead: a ton of "woolwwwwwoolwww" moments, and a few too many "wtf" situations. We will make a lot of people cry this year, but it may be more of "us" than we like at times.

Get over it, he is gonna play this year. The world won't end, Michigan football will continue on and Shane wants to play anyways. I think the coaches and all of us fans feel they messed up by not taking a QB in 2012. It is done and over with, move forward, team and program will be fine if not better for it.

Did you even read what the OP wrote? My fing cat has more substance in his liter box.

This board blows ass most days. Post stuff that's interesting and make a salient point. 9/10 posts are of this variety that creates haters, admittedly like myself, coming unglued on the dark underbelly of this blog.

This just in, due to Harris' injury, the staff will pull his scholarship and he will then commit to MSU. We all need to panic since we passed on other recruits. He may not play a down of collegiate football for 18 months, but this dramatic news is going to lead our 2014 class having massive decomitments, and potentially the firing of the staff. The future of Michigan football is in doubt.

Exactly, we knew Darnoh got hurt, but the thread title makes it seem like more injuries are now being reported of the impact variety. Oops, just rambling about NFL alumni at the end of their careers. My bad...this is ridiculous.

This is NFL crap, and writing a title such as this indicated that there were further issues or injuries on the team. Shocker, you caused panic on the Mgoboard. Maybe that's your hobby, if so, you are sadistic and kind a jerky thing boy that no one will like.

Seriously, it's taboo right now for such a thread and write a better title and/or get a clue that isn't OT season.

Re-watching the BtN MichigN preview, and whoa, we got some big freakin athletic dudes. Finally! Gonna be a fun team to watch this year. Probably some moments of "whhhaatttt" but also some mind splitting exciting moments.

Nice work here! Extremely well-written, and I appreciated the flow to the post; and not being afraid to move into what are obviously difficult questions for the recruit to answer. There was a nice balance of personal/overview/Michigan specific information, without the author pressuring or leading the recruit. I am looking forward to seeing the maturation process.

He had a couple outings that inflated his era to that degree. Look at the advanced metrics and quit basing everything on era, batting average, etc. doesn't tell the whole story.

RP has been solid the last two and half months. Be careful for what you wish for considering the Tigers have two more years of control for a 24 yr old pitcher with good stuff. He is a good 4/5 starter in this rotation.

I didn't get Skeeps either. Scorekeepers? I don't remember ever hearing it called Skeeps. I hate to admit I frequented Scorekeepers often my Jr. and Sr. years. I must of missed that one. And in agreement with many posters, most of whatever was written in that thing, isn't really discernible or nearly representative of the Michigan experience.

Ummm, you must be drunk or high, because you simply don't make any sense what so ever, as well as making bone-head predictions.

This article and thread is ineffectual at best. If we don't win 10 games or more this year, the squeaky wheels will begin to chirp. Forget about who we lost in graduation, etc. We bring back with experience and impact freshman nearly 50 men in the two deep. Ummm, hello! We better be a damn fine football team this year. Gardner will light it up, but then have a horrible game that we end up losing, and also have those moments of "$&@$#*%#" that most fans instantly begin to call for the freshman recruit to come in and lead the team.

And please stop predicting Shane Morris is the "next" becoming. He has got a lot of work to do and will be a project. People need to get a grip. I would take a McCarron clone everyday of the week and twice on Sunday over some flashy gunslinger that fups games because he wants to be the "great-one". Not saying Shane thinks or plays that way, but I bet it happens and people let off the gas a bit sooner rather than later on his "greatness".

Ummm, yeah, I don't think so. Shane gonna struggle for awhile. Speight actually looks like Luck, and probably more the prototype they seek long term. So there will be a health competition to say the least...

I totally agree. To be honest, front page content has really been on a downward trend, and simply become very sophomoric in nature. Oh boy, this "board" is an embarrassment to our fan base. I have reading others as well, and coming less and less. Frankly, this is yet another thread where people are spilling the beans of displeasure and I would venture a guess nothing changes. So that usually means its breakup time...

Meta: I personally think the board should go away when MgoBlog 3.0 is launched. If Brian refuses to invest the time and money into making this a well-oiled functional place, or pay someone to create and monitor threads, then he should eliminate it. How many emails does he get a week about taddle tales and meanie people's posting bad stuff? How many bad threads or puerile post does it take before there is a breaking point? How many times must we see Upton, cats, or some dumbass comment about MSU before enough is enough? Or the worst, I come to the Internet to argue or be a jerk because my life sucks type comments before it is enough already?

I apologize for my previous error above. i stated something incorrectly. I am correcting my post about the 11-40 rds. You can sign players with a bonus of up to 100k without it counting against your total bonus pool. If you have signed players under slot for most of your draft, then you can sign players like Torii Jr for more than the 100k, however, every dollar above 100k counts towards your total bonus pool. That is why you hear about clubs drafting "over slot" guys in later rounds to reflect that they most likely believe they saved enough pool money in the earlier rounds to sign kids like Torii. Jr to larger bonus money, even though it counts against their total pool.

A lot of strategy with the MLB draft concerning how singable kids are as HS or younger college players. It is bit confusing and complicated.

Rds 1-10 would be similar to NFL's rd 1-3. Best available, know commodities, most expensive.

Rds 11-40 is like 4-7. Lots of risk/reward, trying to find a "steal" in the draft. Offer hard signees like Torii Jr money to join the org.

MLB has a funkie rule, no rule thing, where rds 11-40 has basically a 100k bonus slot, but you can sign over slot without penalty. The first 10 rds have pretty specific slot money, and going way over slot can cost you money for the rest of the draft and potentially losing money for the next year. Kind of weird.

Well, to enlighten those you don't really get baseball and draft signees. Most young men like Torii Jr often negotiate the cost of their full ride to a place like ND into their signing bonus; or better yet, they make the club offer an equivalent scholarship if and/or when his baseball career is over. So from my perspective, Torii Jr should do the baseball thing. He can always take some courses through the years and in the off-season. When he is done, whether it be five years from now or twenty, he can can earn that degree. He is in a win-win situation.

If you remember that moment in the spring game when they were changing the scrimmage over and Devin came running and jumping over talking a little smack to Hoke. You see that he had a huge smile and laughed. You can tell that there is a great relationship with his players and it is genuine. I was so appreciative and impressed that he is our coach. He is making a huge difference on and off the field. It is palatable.

I agree with you. The program lost its edge sans the 2006 squad. We are getting it back. Brady and crew will have us scary good very soon. Things like this will be fares likely than the past ten years.

Then why do it fergodsakes! Geesh! People, screw MSU, Ohio and everyone else. When we start acting and playing like champions, all this obsessing over everybody's rosters and recruiting better simmer down or end. Sooo damn stupid!

Let the coaches decide rather than people who won't even see him practice or get a feel for how he grasps the offense make any more moronic comments about anoint him the chosen one.

I know everyone likes the young man, but he is 18 and needs time to mature as a human and player. Lets give him that. He is not, and I repeat he is not Drew Henson or Chad Henne. Ceiling, possibly better, but only with time and reps. He will look pretty rough come August 15th no matter what.

This year has an emphasis on best possible recruit since we have such a small class. We may only take as little as 15 commits, but probably no more than 20. I venture a guess it actually ends up closer to the former than the latter (why? At 20 we all would be alarmed at such attrition in on off-season again). That means,regardless, we want the best commit and where he is from isn't the only criteria.

I am sure there are plenty of Ohio kids who would commit on the spot for us, but we need to show that kind of interest in them -- same goes for them committing to Ohio.

Anyways, I will go a step further...there isn't one shredd of schadenfreude in Chicago's case. They playing on house money and still have a minimal chance to make some noise in the series. The Heat are the biggest whiners in all sports and to suggest otherwise makes you, OP, sound like a few of UofM's biggest rivals.

Just remember six rings in ten years. Best NBA player of all-time. I think Chicago Bulls fans can back pocket those accomplishments for a long time.

Singletary's position is what they are referring to there. He frankly makes the most of the early contact before the other coaches getting involved. He gages interest, sends literature, sets up unofficials, etc.

Just for those who will forget what I am about to write...just so there is no misconceptions about where Blacksburg, VA location in the mid-Atlantic. It is no, and I mean no where near DC (5hrs) Richmond (2hrs) or Norfolk(4hrs). You would be better off getting a flight to Knoxville,TN, renting a car and driving up 81. Blacksburg has a very small regional airport and really won't accommodate anything more than a private plane situation.

I would assert that this thread, like many others before it, show how good these coaches really are. Meaning, we had a major, and I mean major talent deficiency the last two seasons and did an amazing job. Less-than-star-less teams and solid no name contributors won us 19 games.

Lay off the drink and drugs. Your brain is melting. You created a straw-man argument yourself by suggesting that the University is some how by Sept 1 going to dissolve both athletically and academically. How's your degree going to work out now? Guess you are transferring to MSU. OMG, charging GA into the SS is an aggravated act hell bent on wedging ties against this generation of SS and all living alumni and the university.

Straw-man...I am ashamed that you are a fan and potential alum of the university that I graduated from and have loved since I was five. I never would have acted like this. This wasn't an issue when I graduated in 2005.

I beg your pardon, it is not "your school". The alumni have done way more than you. It is our school. You own nothing. It is the University's, state's, students', alumni and communities'. Not just the students.

I actually paid my own tuition. Did you? You sound like a petulant self-involved spoiled brat.

Young padawan, the University of Michigan has been in existence for how many years? How many years have we fielded a football team? How many SS problems have there been in the past with regards to half empty sections?

You have lost it. Maybe this discussion is over, because apparently you don't get it.

You clearly haven't been in section two very often since I have the last two years. The older crowd of "down in front" is going away if not shunned for saying the last couple years. Air Force, NW and Iowa games, people where standing, clapping, and cheering a lot. Section 23-25 is pretty tame, but I sat in 24 for MSU and everyone was into that game.

You can keep pouting about what happen and try to make yourself feel better by degrading us alumni all you want. We will still buy more tickets than you, and still be here long after you are gone. Deal, seriously.

You can't even make a logical conclusion from your own assertion. So do some simple math:

Let's pretend that 30k is designated to the SS. Each ticket is $30 each. Per game, that is 900k gross.

The remaining stadium has 79k at $90 per game. That is a $7,110,000 gross per game. That is 7.11 million peeps.

That is a nearly 7.3:1margin of difference between the gross revenue of the SS and everyone else. Do you see the difference now? Who exactly is the AD actually serving?

And just keep in mind something, my $90 per game cost for the other 79k seats isn't even close to what they actually gross since PSLs and luxury box cost weren't taken into consideration. Add conservatively another 1 million there. Making it closer to a 8:1 margin conservatively.

This argument about who these games are for is laughable. It is about every cotton-picking Michigan fan, not just the students. The AD makes the big money off us Alumni who are addicted to this thing we call Michigan football. The fact anyone is debating it is shocking to say the least.

That's pretty typical for HBO and Showtime series, so that people get hooked in with little bits versus big gulps. Usually the last four to six epis rock it out. They haven't written themselves into a corner yet, and there are sooooso many places to go for a non-book reader watcher person.

Oh my goodness, you damn college kids bug me big time. First, you can't play devils advocate after you state that you act complicity in the opposite way. Your argument is nullified. Secondly, this issue is no longer a "fair" question. If the AD studies the issue, and evidence points to on average or in one game upwards or equal to 5400 students were not showing up by kickoff or at all, this now becomes a "equitable" situation. Simply, the student sections becomes a single "entity" and an equitable policy is applied.

We don't care about your plight, since you created the issue. The AD has feed the monster for too long. That's a fair criticism, but only to a degree. Are you a fan and supporter of te UofM FB team or not? Do you want them to succeed or not? Do you believe in the "big house traditions or not?

Last year they made a corrective action, the students didn't oblige with the HAIL - which was granted a shoddy attempt. This year they are changing policies and procedures and re-establishing an expectation for the SS. That is life. Deal.

All this doesn't matter...I can tell you peeps who don't show or come late, you pissed off the wrong people. If powerful alumni are pressing the AD to make this change, they will do it since their money directly effects the whole AD and UofM.

Well no shit Sherlock! That is because people want tickets to the game and the student section uses up valuable prime real estate. Those 5400 empty seats could be sold at a small discount and make the AD and fans pretty damn happy. That's called a win win situation, versus a lose lose which our current method is providing. Bring on GA and eventually restricting it, if people don't get their priorities straight. Get your head out of your butt!

As a grumpy 33 year old who is an alum, who also had student season tickets that were never that great, I missed two kickoffs. What has happened in the SS over the last few years is a shameful and disheartening occurrence. I am of the mind that we all will see the SS decrease. the AD owes the students nothing more than a chance to buy discounted tickets, and that might go away as well. So many of this generation doesn't get how special it is to have tickets, and don't care about the team. Just like most things in life, it is the few that ruin it for everyone.

I have been to a lot of games, and the last two years I have heard more alumni and fans look at the empty seats and not just bitch, but express complete and utter outrage much like many of us have here. It is pathetic.

I mean, I drank until 4am, and was up and doing it all over again by 8-9am; and then making a 12pm kickoff. Get over it. Shit, you get a disco nap and can go out again Saturday night if you are so inclined.

Ummm...MSC was one of the most prolific fundraising Prezis this U or any has seen in a 100 hundred years. And, yes, it is all about the Benjamins for U prezis. Our endowment has ba-boomed under her auspicies. That was her main roll, and she killed it.

We are so close, it is an extension of giddiness from bball. People need to realize we are gonna be good for a long time if we have this kind of talent who is coached and developed properly consistently.

How many irrelevant depth charts will Mr. Yost post on here. Is typing names that will change ten time over in the next six months thought provoking or solid analysis? Is it interesting? Is this is a waste of time and board space?

Well, I am 33, and been through worse frankly in terms of my UofM fandom and pro sports teams I follow. This is an easy tough loss to get over, since it was such a great ride and pleasure watching these young men come together and do something they probably shouldn't of done. Having said that, they were such a dangerous team to play in the tourney, and people realize now that with this staff, quality players, UofM is back in the conversation. Get there is so hard, and to do it consistently is nearly impossible. So when we get here, don't be afarid to be proud of the accomplishment. Man, what a ride -- and I don't even really enjoy baseket ball that much!

This always happens, but really the only thing irking me is the cock roaches from other BIG schools or national rabble rouser who are trying to disparage this team. I don't mind a little ribbing, but don't bring up the Fab Five, our sanctions or how we got "lucky". I had one boob who was trying to be funny and say that all our "good" players were ex-Pudue recruits, NW IN players, and that is the only reason we were good. Not only does this person not make a lick of sense, but he had to bring up the negative issues we dealt with 10-15 years ago as a "we got what we deserved" straw-man arguement, as if it had anything to do with this team or staff. I don't suffer fools well, so I slammed him down pretty fast. It is what it is. People are inheritently insecure about thier underpreforming sports teams.

I say be gracious in defeat, be proud of what happend. It is one thing to lose, it is another to act like a loser. Quite blamming anyone but ourselves. We lost. It is ok. If things shake out for us this off-season, we could be really good next year. It would be great to make runs like this consistently.

No offense to Brian, but I will take this one: sitting Burke was our only option. If he gets number three with 5:00 left in the first and then fouls out with 2:00 in the game, ok fing then what? What is your solution? Duh, we are in a worse position. Basically, a cold shooting Hardaway and gased Albrecht? Staukas, who apparently left at half time to get some ice cream. Levert? Oh my begeebies, Levert!! He wasn't the answer, if anything a bigger problem Monday.

Burke led/leads us, but we needed more from others in the title game. We just didn't get it Monday. No reason to analyze something worthless like that. Louisville wasn't getting blown out in that game. They are/were a big run team. If people are assuming we would have increased our lead to 20 before the half by keeping Burke in, I think that is marshmallow skies and strawberry fields type thinking.

I would like to thank MgoBlog for this distingushed honor. It was a more than I ever expected when I typed those words on that faithful day.

I would also like to thank the University of Michigan for taking a chance on a dude from a small town all those years ago. I may not be banking it, but I am representing it, yo! Hail!

I need to send a special shout-out to Bell's brewery for those wonderfully delicous craft beers that have altered my state-of-mind, and gave me the right kind of hang-over to think things through more often. And, also, the name of my cat!

Oh...how we forget how SU got stommed by Gtown basically playing transition and hitting pop threes off that 2-3 amoeba zone.

They are going to be a tough match-up, but with our coaches getting a whole week to prep, I feel confident. Remember, we have five legit scoring threats on the floor, not one or two scorers, but five that SU must account for in this game. And to be frank, with the way McGary as been agressive underneath, his put backs and re-bound second chance points, SU is not liking his development in the tourney. Those are killers against zone defenses.

This team is proving that you don't need to be the "best" team on the court, but rather be the team with the most determination, clutch shots, smarts and effort will win. Very exciting team to watch and enjoy.

Maybe I am a little dense on this Sunday morn, but how is this board worthy? Some 18-21 year old sparty fan or attendee jabs at you about your Michigan gear? Did you get your precious cup of joe? Wasn't the fact that you were free on leisure time while they were working a mindless service job on a Sunday wasn't satisfaction enough?

Some of you are fing losers. Why hang on every thing other fan bases say, and this is a particularly worthless claim or insinuation at that. Get a life!

I thought the Bill Lamberie (sp?) reference in the game was quite apt. Plays with a nasty streak and high energy. Of course, sans Bill's propensity to be a totally dirty (full disclosure coming from a Bulls fan) and pick fights.

Man, the coaches did a great job prepping the team to beat VCU's press. But hoooo boy, did Timmay and Mitch have a great game today. Tim beating the press early really took the pressure off and created some easy buckets. Mitch could be a huge wild card for us next weekend. He is much more athletic than people think and creates plays for everyone.

And hello again GRIII. Nice job these last two games of making some shots and easy buckets.

Very excited!! Even if we play Kansas, we can play with them. Burke will be key in that game however, and needs to work his game in the lane.

Problem is that happened two years ago, and VCU, who has no business doing it with their AD budget, gave him a huge raise . I think a he is around 1.5-1.7 per year. He has a good salary and no pressure, at least not like BIG or ACC type pressure.

Question is, does his system play when he can recruit legit talent? Would they want to play that style? Bballers want to play somewhere that can get them to the NBA on a year or two.

1976 Indiana vs Michigan with a Hoosier win. It's possible for a BIG match-up. Buckeyes and whiskey got the best bracket to make a run for the title. We can beat anyone in our bracket, but better dig deep. Gonna be a fun three weeks!

This incessant need to relate everything back to MSU sounds more like we have the issues and not them. Who fing cares about who got the fing time slot. Is he bitching about the seeding as well? Is he bitching about being in Duke's pod? He very well could be thinking similarly to many about us and snickering at how hard our bracket is; and we are going to need to find something quick to make a run.

Let's all try to focus on Michigan and not give a fing shit about any one else right now. Mmmkay, grrreeaattt!

1. Thank you for the consistent softball updates. This program annually is literally the best kept secret on Michigan's campus.

2. This is a preview, thus should be a diary.

3. Your prose needs some serious work. It is really hard to follow or make out your points with so many grammatical errors. It spoils what should be quality information for those who don't regularly follow the team.